Call for Proposals
Workshops at the Twenty-Sixth AAAI
Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 22–26, 2012
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Timetable for Workshop Organizers
www.aaai.org/aaai12
The AAAI-12 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program of the Association
for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s
Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12).
Workshops are scheduled to be held at the beginning of the conference, July 22–23, 2012. Workshop
participants will have the opportunity to meet and
discuss issues with a selected focus — providing an
informal setting for active exchange among researchers, developers and users on topics of current
interest. Members of all segments of the AI community are encouraged to submit proposals. To foster interaction and exchange of ideas, the workshops will be kept small, with 25–50 participants.
Attendance is limited to active participants only.
The format of workshops will be determined by
their organizers, who are encouraged to leave ample time for general discussion. Workshops will
typically be one full day in length, although halfday and two-day proposals will be considered.
Proposal Content
Proposals for workshops should be about two (2)
pages in length, and should contain the following:
A description of the workshop topic. Identify
the specific issues on which the workshop will
focus.
A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time.
A brief description of the proposed workshop
format, regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion.
An indication as to whether the workshop
should be considered for a half-day, one, or twoday meeting.
The names and full contact information (e-mail
and postal addresses, fax and telephone numbers) of the organizing committee — three or
four people knowledgeable in the field-and
November 18, 2011: Proposals for workshops due
January 6, 2012: Workshop CFP due at AAAI
January 27, 2012: Workshop calls to be posted on AAAI’s website
March 30, 2012: Workshop submissions due to organizers
April 20, 2012: Notifications sent to authors
April 20, 2012: List of participants due at AAAI
May 16, 2012: Final workshop papers due at AAAI
short descriptions of their relevant expertise.
(Please specify main contact.) Strong proposals
include organizers who bring differing perspectives to the workshop topic and who are actively
connected to the communities of potential participants.
A list of potential attendees.
Workshops are an excellent forum for exploring
emerging approaches and task areas, for bridging
the gaps between AI and other fields or between
subfields of AI, for elucidating the results of exploratory research, or for critiquing existing approaches. Because workshops are intended for focused exploration of special topics, topics that are
already the subject of regular meetings are not appropriate.
Workshop Organization
Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following:
Producing a call for participation. The Call is due
January 6, 2012. This Call will be posted on the
AAAI web site. Organizers are responsible for additional publicity such as distributing the Call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and
especially to potential audiences from outside the
AAAI community. Organizers are encouraged to
maintain their own web site with updated information about the workshop.
Selecting participants. Workshop attendance is by
invitation of the organizers. Selection of attendees
will be made by the organizers on the basis of submissions due March 30, 2012. Workshop organizers
will need to provide AAAI with a preliminary list of
the participants by April 20, 2012.
Coordinating the production of the workshop notes
with AAAI. AAAI coordinates the collection, production, and distribution of the technical reports or
working notes for the workshops. Workshop papers
and abstracts must be received by AAAI no later
than May 16, 2012, and volumes are limited to a total of 200 pages.
Workshop organizers who want to publish the papers from their workshop (or significant portions
of it) will have the opportunity to do so through the
AAAI Press. The Press (which retains the right of
first refusal to publish) will furnish details of its
program to interested organizers and authors.
AAAI will provide logistical support, and meeting
places for the workshops, and will determine the
dates and times of the workshops. AAAI reserves
the right to drop any workshop if the organizers
miss the above deadlines. Workshops are not to be
used as a vehicle for marketing products. A reduced
workshop registration fee will be offered to AAAI12 technical program registrants.
Proposal Submission
Workshop proposals should be submitted to the
workshop cochairs at the addresses below as soon
as possible and must be received no later than November 18, 2011. PDF format is preferred. Organizers will be notified of the committee’s decision by
December 16, 2011. Please address inquiries concerning workshop submissions to the workshop
cochairs.
AAAI-12 Workshop Cochairs
Michael Beetz
Technische Universität München
michael.beetz@in.tum.de
Holger H. Hoos
University of British Columbia
hoos@cs.ubc.ca